How to Use limestone in a Sentence

limestone

noun

• The house is on a beach and has these big limestone cliffs all around.
  — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2023
• The pendant lights are by Serge Mouille and the floor is made of three types of limestone.
  — Monique Valeris, ELLE Decor, 11 July 2022
• The name Jewett House is etched in limestone above the front door, Prince John said.
  — Candace Taylor, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
• Part of the great tomb was once cloaked in granite blocks rather than limestone.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
• That heat could then be used to, say, heat a limestone kiln to make cement.
  — TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
• Sandstone turned to sand and limestone cracked, crumbling the very old and the not very old at all alike.
  — Vivian Yee, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
• This comes from vineyards in Touraine, on soils of clay, limestone and flint (the prized silex of the Loire Valley).
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
• The mud had limestone bits, and dandelion and foxtail did much of the work of holding the soil in place.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Instead of sand, there are slabs of limestone and the famous blue-and-white striped beach chairs to lounge in.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 17 June 2022
• The flutings are grooves drawn by the fingers of ice age humans across the soft limestone cave walls.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
• The marl and limestone bluffs are steep; the wood of the oaks is disconcertingly dark, the scrub spiny.
  — Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2022
• The hope here is that oyster larva will catch hold of the hard limestone rock and grow reefs there once again.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2023
• The left side of the road is a sheer cut of rock, quartzite, phyllite, and limestone laid bare by dynamite.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
• The best way to increase the pH of your soil is to use garden lime, which is made from crushed dolomitic limestone.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2022
• The limestone rocks, many of them as tall as a school bus, are thought to be the remains of an ancient forest.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
• The 100-acre park started as the site of a natural limestone cave.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 2 May 2024
• Outside the living room is a path in Madras gray limestone.
  — Pilar Viladas, ELLE Decor, 1 June 2022
• Use this sudden pause near rocks, logs, limestone ledges, and drop-offs.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• The basin, believed to date back to the Byzantine era, housed the smiling sphinx statue, carved from limestone.
  — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
• There would be no way to savor the gloomy shadows; the cool, smooth limestone; or the mineral tang of rock and earth.
  — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
• The legs of an outdoor table, carved from limestone, resemble the trunk of a palm tree.
  — Gisela Williams Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• The trail is made from compacted with crushed limestone.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 27 Sep. 2022
• The researchers found the remains in a limestone cave on the eastern side of the Indonesian part of Borneo.
  — Mckenzie Prillaman, Scientific American, 13 Sep. 2022
• Pieces of engraved columns and limestone slabs were all that remained of the Temple of Zeus.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
• Deep in southern France, near the small town of Malataverne, is a limestone cave called Grotte Mandrin.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2022
• The abrasive limestone was one of the most challenging aspects of Rayu.
  — Sasha Digiulian, Outside Online, 6 Dec. 2022
• Eventually, the buoy is meant to break down, with the limestone dissolving and the wood and kelp drifting to the bottom of the seafloor.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022
• But outside the dirt parking lot, Dabelko found a massive piece of limestone.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 July 2022
• Black limestone grave markers probably made their way to the New World via London, the researchers write.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
• Masons cut limestone from quarries near Paris and transported blocks by horse cart to the capital.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024